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Panel: Baker must make cakes for gay weddings
YAHOO.COM ^ | 30 MAY 2014 | AP

Posted on 05/30/2014 1:51:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

DENVER (AP) — Colorado's Civil Rights Commission on Friday ordered a baker to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, finding his religious objections to the practice did not trump the state's anti-discrimination statutes.

The unanimous ruling from the seven-member commission upheld an administrative law judge's finding in December that Jack Phillips violated civil rights law when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple in 2012. The couple sued.

"I can believe anything I want, but if I'm going to do business here, I'd ought to not discriminate against people," Commissioner Raju Jaram said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: godsbakesale; homosexualagenda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Invented “rights” to homosexual marriage and abortion are now trumping God-given ones.


41 posted on 05/30/2014 2:08:17 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Diogenesis

Indeed, if bakers, photographers, etc., comply with this insanity, if they don’t fight, it proves that’s exactly what Americans have become... slaves.

Just a few short years ago, I had confidence that Americans wouldn’t buckle to such fascism. That Americans had freedom and liberty in their DNA, thanks to the country’s history and heritage. That Americans had too much moxie, too much vinegar, to bow down like scared little rabbits. But nope, just look at the GOP, rolling over at every turn. Just like that PA governor a few days ago.

All I see is cowering and surrender. It’s pathetic beyond words, what has become of both America and the American populace.


42 posted on 05/30/2014 2:08:39 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Says it all, read no further. Commissioner?

The issue is not anti-discrimination, it is enabling the shoving of your beliefs down the throats of whoever you damn please. If I was the baker, I would quote a very high price, say $2000.00 above the normal rate and say it is for “mental anguish” added to the ingredients.


43 posted on 05/30/2014 2:08:45 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I’d move.


44 posted on 05/30/2014 2:08:54 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Jewbacca
The donation will be in their name.

That's pretty clever :)
45 posted on 05/30/2014 2:09:21 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Unless you are a muslim taxi driver, then you don’t have to.


46 posted on 05/30/2014 2:13:09 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It’s just so stupid. Will he go to jail if he refuses? If he makes the cake poorly, will he get fined? Will he have to make it over and over until the fudge packers are happy with it? What a piece of crap America has become!


47 posted on 05/30/2014 2:14:19 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
...he does not currently make wedding cakes.

The Lord looks after His own.

 

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I bet he'll make a wedding cake for his friends and people he knows and trusts.  Heh heh heh.

48 posted on 05/30/2014 2:14:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He should make clear that he bakes both heterosexual wedding cakes and homosexual wedding cakes. The ingredients are not necessarily the same.


49 posted on 05/30/2014 2:14:53 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Crappiest? They might like that. Think about it.


50 posted on 05/30/2014 2:15:57 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Jewbacca

If it were me I would require an application with the name of the groom and bride, date, etc before confirming any date for wedding cakes.

If the application says Steve and Bob, well, then you know they are gay. I would then take a vacation day for that date and tell them, sorry I will be on vacation that day.


51 posted on 05/30/2014 2:16:24 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yep that says it all


52 posted on 05/30/2014 2:17:18 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: C210N
Where did you get 0kaka's picture?

Don't see the jug-ears, though.

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53 posted on 05/30/2014 2:17:24 PM PDT by melancholy
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To: allblues

I wonder how far the gov is willing to take this. If he’s forced into a paddy wagon and hauled into custody, I’m not sure the American Patriots will take that. Remember the Bundy Ranch?


54 posted on 05/30/2014 2:18:23 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod

The aim of the gays is to punish people who will not celebrate their perversion when they could have simply found another baker. I’m sure if the baker makes a cake they don’t like that they will sue again.


55 posted on 05/30/2014 2:19:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; All
Skimming through the first three or four dozen reader comments -- it is way, way, way overwhelmingly, "The government is wrong, the baker has the right to discriminate and the customers had the right to go somewhere else." One person posted that he/she was for gay marriage, but that this was just too much.

When are we going to wake up to the fact that we are a majority being bamboozled and robbed and enslaved by a force that has been slowly, systematically seized by a minority working through government to achieve power of force?

I swear. Americans are a lot smarter and better and righter than most conservatives give them credit. Most conservatives wail that "We live in a nation where more than half of the idiots (excepting present company, of course!) voted for Santa Claus!" Wrong. We live in a nation where the votes that have tipped leftist politicians into office, represented pretend Americans and/or harvested franchises from homeless shelters, old folks homes, unions, etc. The real people on the ground say Screw Santa Claus, just about two to one. But because the MSM, pop culture, and public-funded education is made up of wildly disproportionate numbers of leftists, it projects an "America" where throngs are supporting this crap. They are as imaginary and pretend as Raiders of the Lost Ark.

56 posted on 05/30/2014 2:19:58 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

If that happens, this country will explode. We’re not sedated enough.


57 posted on 05/30/2014 2:20:43 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
You might be able to force him to comply, but you can’t make him do the job well. Personally, I don’t do business with anyone who doesn’t want it.

You don't want angry people preparing your food.

58 posted on 05/30/2014 2:22:03 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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To: bergmeid; allblues

Now that’s what will happen. The American Patriots will, have, do tolerate that.


59 posted on 05/30/2014 2:22:10 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: greene66

Bundy Ranch gives me hope.


60 posted on 05/30/2014 2:23:21 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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